Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is almost here! Yikes. I can hardly believe it. That means Christmas is going to sneak up on me so fast! Deep breath. I wanted to squeeze in one more fall card before it becomes all Christmas all the time. Seeing how tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I figured a Thanksgiving themed card was in order.

I started by printing out this little guy onto natural white Neenah cardstock. I had already picked out the plaid paper to use so I grabbed my copic color chart and started picking markers. Here are the colors I used:

Once I was all done with coloring I used my Scan n Cut to cut him out with a little border. I went back to the plaid paper. This is from Carta Bella's Fall Blessings paper pad. I pulled out two other patterns that went well with the plaid. An orange and a green. I really wanted a non standard die shape for my layers so I went digging through my stash. I found these beautiful Label 55 dies from Spellbinders. I cut the green and the orange papers with different sizes of the same die set. Then I cut the plaid paper with a scalloped rectangle die from Mama Elephant.

I sponged the edges of the plaid paper with a mossy green. I decided to cut my label dies so that they would be flat on the bottom and line up with the stitched edge of the plaid paper. I sponged the edges of the orange paper but left the green one alone. I glued the mouse directly onto the green paper and glued the rest of the layers together. These were then glued onto a Neenah natural white card base.

I stamped the Happy Thanksgiving sentiment onto another piece of the Neenah paper with the same mossy green ink I used to sponge the plaid paper edges. I cut it down to a small rectangle and sponged those edges with the orange ink. I used a piece of foam tape on the back to pop it up from the card.

I thought it needed just a little something more. I didn't quite like the look of sequins but I did find these gorgeous gold gems from Pretty Pink Posh in my stash. Just perfect. And that's it! I hope you like my little mouse card and that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

You can pick up the Pumpkin Mouse digital stamp right HERE in the 2 Cute Ink Etsy store. Be sure to check out all of the great digital stamps Heidi has in her shop! Come on over and check out her Facebook group too! 2 Cute Ink Digital Stamp Fans